Photoshop Touch

The grandaddy of digital image manipulation software has at last arrived on mobile platforms.

This app brings with it standard Photoshop features, such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters.

Connected to Adobe's Creative Cloud, the theory with this app is that you could take a picture with your mobile device, start adjusting an image on the device, then head back to your computer to polish it all up nicely. The app comes with 2GB of Creative Cloud storage.

Terminal IDE

The Android development environment for Android, Java, C, HTML received an update over the weekend. The big improvements were upgrading GCC to version 4.4, links web browser to v2.7, and the addition of tutorials.

Coast Guard SafeTrx

We have a bit of fun with some of the apps on the App Wrap, but here is one that could be deadly serious.

The app is used to register vessels and trip planning with the Australian Coast Guard. It has the ability to add start and end locations, an optional waypoint, and ETA.

Registering a trip will activate position reporting in the app, which will send the vessel's position to the Coast Guard server and will alert the Coast Guard if a journey goes beyond its ETA. Thankfully, you can end your trip at any time and/or revise the ETA to avoid having the Coast Guard needlessly looking for you.

With such a cavalcade of schadenfreude on tap, why wouldn't you want an app that allows you to connect directly with the source?

This app contains the member for Bowman's Facebook and Twitter timelines, as well as a news feed.

The app's page asks, "Why sit on the sideline when you can actually be part of what's happening?" And further claims that "This is Democracy in action — in fact, if the ancient Greeks had invented this ap,p they probably would have called it.... 'Have Your Say'."

Given Laming's history, I'm not sure I want to be a part of "what's happening", but if you do, there's an app for it now.